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My favorites would be  
yalebowl : 3/30/2023 4:25 pm : link
Pat Summerall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkR5JKV3STY

Don Chandler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Chandler

Joe Danelo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuhMVIa7QA

I saw them all kick  
Chip : 3/30/2023 4:44 pm : link
other than Summerall and Chandler was kicking for the Packers. Pete had a brother Charlie as I recall who also kicked soccer style. The good old days.
If I recall Gogolak was the first soccer style kicker in the NFL  
steve in ky : 3/30/2023 4:47 pm : link
There were a lot of games during the real down years where he was one of the few things we fans could be proud of.
RE: I saw them all kick  
yalebowl : 3/30/2023 5:06 pm : link
In comment 16078719 Chip said:
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other than Summerall and Chandler was kicking for the Packers. Pete had a brother Charlie as I recall who also kicked soccer style. The good old days.


Chandler kicked for the Giants before the Packers
Frank Gifford  
yalebowl : 3/30/2023 5:51 pm : link
Also place kicked
Met Ali Haji-Shiek while tailgating at a game in 1990  
PatersonPlank : 3/30/2023 6:29 pm : link
Still have a picture of his 1987 SB ring he won with the Redskins.

I've seen almost all of the kickers listed above. He may not have been the best one, but my favorite was Matt Bahr. He was unbelievably clutch in the 1990 run.
Ben Agajanian (and forward)  
Red Dog : 3/30/2023 7:05 pm : link
Ben was missing some toes from his kicking foot but was still effective. Was the PK when I started watching the GIANTS in 1955.

Frank Gifford. Was there anything he couldn't do on a football field?

Pat Summerall. Listed as an End, and actually lined up there a few times. His FG against Cleveland in the swirling snow (estimated at 49.5 yards but nobody really knows exactly due to all the snow on the field) is still one of the great NYG clutch plays of all time.

Ali Haji-Sheikh. Was the team's best scoring threat his rookie year. Despite the name he was born right here in the USA. Asked if he'd ever been to another country, he answered "Canada."

Matt Bahr. I remember watching him getting ready for the snap on yet another important kick and his expression looked like he was thinking "just another day at the office."





Brad Daluiso  
monstercoo : 3/30/2023 11:29 pm : link
What about Daluiso? He was a staple on this team for a long time. He had a strong leg. He was one of the first kickers I saw kick a kickoff out of the end zone before they made the kickoff field shorter.
I used to see Gogolak often when I first moved here back in 1999.  
Victor in CT : 3/31/2023 8:19 am : link
His license plates said GOGO-3.I actually delivered wine to his house once. My friend owned a shop in Westchester that was one of the few places that carried good Hungarian wines at the time, Pete was a regular customer and a really nice guy. I was at the shop helping out and offered to make the delivery since it's right near my house.
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Del Shofner : 3/31/2023 9:25 am : link
In comment 16078789 PatersonPlank said:
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... my favorite was Matt Bahr. He was unbelievably clutch in the 1990 run.


Bahr was indeed unbelievably clutch in the 1990 run. Fun facts: he was All-American in soccer in college, and his father Walter Bahr is in the National Soccer Hall of Fame, having been the long-time captain of the USMNT (including the squad that beat England in the WC in Brazil).
No love for George Hunt or Bob Timberlake?  
Big Blue Blogger : 3/31/2023 9:40 am : link
Bookends to a decade of football greatness.
No love for Allegre  
DoctorT : 3/31/2023 11:17 am : link
or Ernie Koy (punter)
...  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 3/31/2023 12:10 pm : link
No love for the Scot who kicked us to 2 Super Bowls in '07 & '11?
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